Adventures by Disney Adventure Advisor

PROJECT: adventures by disney ADVENTURE ADVISOR

Client: Adventures by Disney (ABD)Roles: content strategist, project lead copywriter, UX lead, WTFerAudience: Guests planning a vacation with ABDObjective: The Business objective was to create a more "entertaining" and "fun" experience while vacation planning.Challenge: Convince the Business to cancel the project.Results: The project was cancelled.

in others' words

”You’ve done a great job of questioning pages that weren’t designed as good Guest experiences. The results are quite a few examples of improved Guest experiences that originated with your strategic questions. Excellent writing. Superb strategic evaluation of every assignment: you are always proactive and brave if you think a page is not going to achieve its objective. ”—BJ M.,Copy Manager

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Thank you for your wonderful partnership on this! The business and I definitely had a light-bulb moment when reviewing your suggestions.We had been looking at it so long that we couldn’t see this most logical and simple flow until you…stepped in to help. Thank you thank you thank you. You are so awesome! Any more studies [like the one you sent], send them my way, this gives me great talking points with the business”—Autumn S.,Account Manager

The Story

This was an unusual project.

When this assignment came to me from ABD, I was working on a Disneyland registration project that required a lot of disclaimers and legal restrictions. I was excited by this ABD project, which had a slight promise of being more creative.

The goal was to provide Guests with a "fun" and "entertaining" 5-question vacation planning experience.

While I was writing questions for the Adventure Advisor, I calculated the various outcomes——and realized some combinations of answers led to a null set, zero, no match found. The Guest gets nothing.

I also realized ABD already had a trip selector that worked well, and we were reinventing the wheel with the Adventure Advisor.

Sunk costs is a hard concept for some, but eventually, through spreadsheets, studies, proofs, and patience, I convinced the Business to cancel the project——which saved tech, design, creative costs, brand damage, and——most importantly——Guest frustration.

copy for ABD's adventure advisor

1. ENVIRONMENT: NATURE VS. COSMOPOLITAN

I want to travel to a destination with___.o The Great Outdoors and amazing wildlifeo Ancient ruins and cultural mysterieso Famous landmarks and cosmopolitan skies